Recover Deleted Partition on Mac
Mac is the most reliable and secured operating system developed by Apple. It is available in different versions with latest ones include Leopard ,Snow Leopard and Lion. In Mac OS, HFS and HFS file system are used. In order to organize data efficiently in Mac, user can create volumes or partitions in Mac. Having multiple partitions on Mac is very beneficial as it:
- Help to organize data efficiently and enhance disk usage
- You can install different version of Mac OS in same system
In Mac OS, there is provided disk utility using which you can delete, create, resize or modify partition. Data stored in Mac partition is highly secured but sometimes due to some reasons data becomes inaccessible due to damage or corruption to Mac partition or when entire Partition gets deleted. Some of the scenarios in which partition can deleted involves:
- Improper system shutdown due to power outage or system crash, chances of Master boot record corruption is bit high
- Due to operating system malfunction or file system error, partition map gets corrupted and entire volume becomes in accessible
- Missing or corrupt data structure and virus infection into your system
- While creating or deleting volumes/partition, user might accidentally delete important volume without checking its contents which could further leads to serious data loss
In order to avoid such data loss scenarios due to deletion of Partition, you must follow following precautionary measures like:
- Always keep backup of data stored in Mac volume to avoid data loss situations due to partition deletion or Partition Map corruption
- While using disk utility for modifying or deleting partition, properly examine the contents and priority. If files are important then make sure that you have taken backup of those files.
In worst scenario, if you have deleted partition without backup, then third party data recovery software Mac comes as a helpful solution to recover deleted partition on Mac. The tool is design in such a way to scan entire partition and extract inaccessible, lost, missing or deleted data from Mac hard drive. The software supports data recovery from HFS, HFS+, HFS wrapper and FAT file system volumes. It is compatible with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.5 Leopard, 10.4 Tiger and 10.3.9 Panther.